A sewing machine with a threading and air supply selecting device includes a base with a main shaft for driving at least one thread wiper, and a guiding pipe is provided on the thread wiper. On the base is further disposed an air supply device driven by a drive force source. Between the air supply source and he guiding pipe is disposed a pipe-moving device for moving the connecting pipe to the guiding pipe. A swing arm of a connecting rod assembly serves to control ON and Off of the air supply source. A directional positioning device is used to stop the main shaft from rotation, when the air supply source is working.

A sewing system can include a sewing machine; a vacuum pump; and a polymer bag configured to hold a fiber preform and to connect to the vacuum pump so that gas inside the polymer bag is removable by the vacuum pump to thereby reduce a pressure inside the polymer bag to less than an ambient pressure of an outside of the polymer bag, and to compress the fiber preform to a compressed thickness thereby forming a compressed fiber preform, so that a pattern of stitches of a filament are stitchable through the polymer bag and the compressed fiber preform by the sewing machine while the pressure inside the polymer bag is less than the ambient pressure.

A system for manufacturing synthetic turf is disclosed that includes an indexing system configured to affix an indexing device to a backing material, a tufting machine configured to receive the backing material and yarn and to fabricate the synthetic turf by tufting the yarn in the backing material and a controller configured to read the indexing device and to post-process the synthetic turf as a function of the indexing device.

A system for manufacturing synthetic turf is disclosed that includes an indexing system configured to affix an indexing device to a backing material, a tufting machine configured to receive the backing material and yarn and to fabricate the synthetic turf by tufting the yarn in the backing material and a controller configured to read the indexing device and to post-process the synthetic turf as a function of the indexing device.